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Mussolini and Petacci were executed the following afternoon, two days before Adolf Hitler's suicide. The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on ...
Mussolini's widow, Rachele, stated that her husband had remained "basically irreligious until the later years of his life". [206] Mussolini was given a funeral in 1957 when his remains were placed in the family crypt. [207] [208] [209]
The Italian Civil War (Italian: Guerra civile italiana, pronounced [ˈɡwɛrra tʃiˈviːle itaˈljaːna]) was a civil war in the Kingdom of Italy fought during the Italian campaign of World War II between Italian fascists and Italian partisans (mostly politically organized in the National Liberation Committee) and, to a lesser extent, the Italian Co-belligerent Army.
This is Mussolini – who started out as a journalist, editing his own populist newspaper, Il Popolo d’Italia – as plotter and orator, propagandist and manipulator, back-stabber and front ...
The dead body of Benito Mussolini, Claretta Petacci and other executed fascists by Italian partisans on display at Piazzale Loreto square in Milan, April 1945 On the morning of 27 April 1945, Umberto Lazzaro ( nom de guerre 'Partisan Bill'), a partisan with the 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, was checking a column of lorries carrying retreating SS ...
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Before World War II, Mussolini may have been preparing Ciano to succeed him as Duce. [18] At the start of the war in 1939, Ciano did not agree with Mussolini's plans and knew that Italy's armed forces were ill-prepared for a major war. When Mussolini formally declared war on France in 1940, he wrote in his diary, "I am sad, very sad. The ...